Software Architect

About Josys

Josys is a modern AI-native identity security and governance platform. Enterprise AI adoption has made identity the fastest-growing attack surface, and the hardest to govern. Josys discovers, governs, and secures every identity - human, machine, and AI agent - across every application in the enterprise, allowing security and IT teams to surface risk, control access, and remediate identity threats in real-time. Trusted by over 1,000 organizations and MSPs worldwide, Josys turns identity from the fastest-growing attack surface into an autonomously governed advantage.

For more information, visit josys.com.

About the role

We are seeking a skilled Full Stack Enterprise Software Architect to join our team and help us build innovative and scalable applications for Josys. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack software that meet our company's business requirements and user needs.

To be successful in this role, the candidate must have a strong understanding of software architecture and design principles, as well as experience working on SaaS applications. Additionally, the candidate MUST have experience with scaling applications and systems preferably working on building cloud native SaaS applications in 1→10 or 10→100 growth scenarios.

Key Responsibilities

Define and drive enterprise architecture strategy, technology roadmaps, and engineering standards aligned with business growth objectives and long-term platform scalability.

Lead architecture governance and design review processes to ensure consistency, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability across all engineering initiatives.

Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance teams to align technology decisions with business priorities and operational goals.

Architect and design scalable, resilient, secure, and high-performance cloud-native SaaS platforms and distributed systems leveraging Node.js and modern microservices architectures.

Define secure architecture patterns aligned with SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, and enterprise security best practices, including authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.

Design cloud-native platform capabilities including observability, resiliency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, multi-region readiness, and automated scalability.

Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to optimize cloud architecture, operational efficiency, system reliability, and platform cost management.

Define and implement API architecture standards and integration frameworks to enable secure, scalable, and seamless communication across internal platforms and external systems.

Collaborate with external technology partners and vendors to evaluate, integrate, and optimize third-party platform capabilities.

Evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, AI-assisted automation, and intelligent workflow capabilities into the enterprise platform architecture strategy where applicable.

Create and maintain architecture documentation including system diagrams, technical standards, data models, integration specifications, and architectural decision records (ADRs).

Mentor and guide engineering teams on architecture best practices, engineering standards, scalability principles, and high-quality software design through technical leadership and design reviews.

Stay current with evolving trends in cloud-native technologies, SaaS platforms, distributed systems, security, and enterprise architecture practices to continuously improve platform capabilities and engineering maturity.

Requirements / Qualifications

10+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 6 years in a hands-on Architecture role designing and delivering scalable enterprise SaaS platforms.

Proven experience architecting and building cloud-native, SaaS applications capable of supporting high growth and large-scale distributed workloads.

Strong expertise in designing and implementing distributed systems, microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, and event-driven integration patterns.